Lightfoot spoke about Soldier Field today - she mentioned a few pain points, including difficulty of access.
Makes me wonder if she is preparing something like the "CHI Line" as part of a package to keep the Bears in the city. There's no way to expand parking or roadways around the stadium, so the only way to improve access is with transit. We have needed a downtown circulator for decades now, so this would be a good idea. And if we're gonna spend taxpayer money on sports teams, I prefer when that investment can also benefit Chicagoans outside of game days.
Lightfoot also mentioned a roof on the stadium. I have no idea how you could do that without making the stadium look even more comical than it already is. And it does nothing for the seating capacity which is among the smallest in the NFL.
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Originally Posted by ardecila
The red line is actually the "CHI Line", which should be yellow per the legend. It is a sort of vague circulator proposal that Bob Dunn has included in all the One Central plans. They have not specified what kind of transit it would be, or who would pay to build/operate it. Given the routing I assume it would be some kind of bus route, requiring an extension of the McCormick busway to 31st, and a busway onramp at McFetridge
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